Repair-It

I am not sure how useful this is: https://mbworld.org/forums/vindecoder.p ... B7JA386429

Random shot of the passenger side hood area (kind of in line with the front right tire area). 20240520_080956.jpg I'm not sure how well this shows up in photos. How convenient. It is possible that wet sanding and following up with a 2K clear (kind of on a per panel basis) could be a path. And wet sa...

Fun fact: the wider rear wheels (255 tires) actually put the spokes more inboard than the fronts (225 tires). 20240520_081046.jpg 20240520_081054.jpg Inspected tires more closely. The front PS2s are date code 2019, and they are starting to look long in the tooth. I didn't realize they made them for ...

By some parts bin magic, your CLK takes the identical TPMS sensors that I just bought for my E63. https://www.tpms.com/Huf-IntelliSens-20213-28214-TPMS-Sensor-p/h0036set-mercedes.htm On sale for $99 for a set of 4 (even cheaper than Rockauto - they are BH Sens which is the same thing), and as far as...

Some may postulate this was "part of his plan all along", but I doubt that, as it would have been much less work on his part to just quote a higher shipping cost up front rather than go though all this trouble for only another $250. Regardless, this only brought the shipping cost up to ab...

It has two keys. I backed it up to my driveway but the next thing I did was take the key out and try the Keyless Go (button on shifter to start it, just like my E55). It worked! Good start (get it?). It is getting late but I did take it on a couple of neighborhood test drives. I already have some de...

He drove by at 8:08pm headed west on my street and basically just stopped in the road several hundred feet from my driveway to get the car off. I walked over to greet him. Nice guy, was driving a real semi tractor, or I guess one sort of made for this kind of work. 20240519_201047.jpg 20240519_20123...

Alignment. He installed my camber bolt in the forward thrust arm, which is incorrect. I don't know why he did this. He should have installed it in the main spring control arm and adjusted it to pull inboard. He said he pulled the adjustment inboard on the thrust arm for what that's worth. WIS has a ...

Last shot on the factory wheels. 20240518_075512.jpg This is the only shot I have of the new wheels and I will explain why, somewhere. 20240518_103918.jpg The tech actually popped the center caps out from my old wheels and installed them in the new ones. I said I might buy the black 5 spoke center c...

Some pics. It seems like the more expensive one from PA (I say more expensive because it was an extra $10 plus shipping as the delta cost) is heavier. It was 24.5 lbs whereas the cheaper one from TX was 23.75 lbs. I feel like the PA one is a higher quality refinish (and perhaps a bit darker). But it...